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China: A History by John Keay 9780007221783
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.99Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast... -
Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America by Kathleen Burk 9780349119199
Booksplease Price: £41.35In OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD Kathleen Burk sets out to tell the story of Britain and America across four hundred years, from colonisation to Iraq. There are two strands to this story. The first is the grand narrative that takes in the British colonisation... -
The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis by Jr. Raymond Davis
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.33On January 27, 2011, on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan, US Government Security contractor Raymond Davis found himself staring down the barrel of a gun. Defending himself, he shot and killed two men who were--depending upon who you ask--illiterate... -
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
Booksplease Price: £14.41Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz... -
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.29Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership.With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which... -
All under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order by Tingyang Zhao
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.90In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China's most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China's story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades,... -
Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico's Disappeared in the War on Drugs Shaylih Muehlmann 9780520314580
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.78A gripping portrait of the relentless women taking missing persons, kidnapping, and extortion cases into their own hands-and building a movement for one another. In this riveting exploration of the lives of mothers whose children are among the 100,000... -
The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope by Munther Isaac 9780830831999
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830831999Author Munther IsaacFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.A growing number of intrepid Arab and... -
Peace Comes Dropping Slow: My Life in the Troubles by Denis Bradley 9781785375002
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375002Author Denis BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 153mm *... -
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin 9781804993194
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Brought to you by Penguin.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.56This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry 9780300260779
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.84A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the... -
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27'Never less than compelling ... She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life' Tom Holland, Literary Review 'Starts with an erupting volcano - and then... -
The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain by Darren McGarvey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE*'An Orwell for today's poor' - The Times'The standout, authentic voice of a generation' Herald'McGarvey is a rarity: a... -
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell 9780008436988
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.38'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORY ... -
A Radical Reader: The Struggle for Change in England 1381-1914 by Christopher Hampton 9780851247250
Booksplease Price: £18.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247250Author Christopher HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 5mm -
Two Weeks in November: The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe by Douglas Rogers 9781780723853
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85Two Weeks in Novemberis the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies - a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixer - who... -
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Quietly frightening.' Guardian'Essential reading.' Irish Times'Consistently... -
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies 9781800811164
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.70'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have... -
Franco: A Personal and Political Biography by Stanley G. Payne 9780299302108
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.83General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all... -
Rebel Island: the incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements 9781915590275
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.79The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its ‘Asian Tiger’ economic miracle — and the looming threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ‘ball of mud’, Taiwan has a modern GDP larger... -
The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England: Public Persons and Popular Spirits by Peter Lake 9780719053184
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.59This book uses the notion of the public sphere to produce a new view of the history of England in the post reformation period, tracing its themes from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. The contributors, who are all leaders in their own fields,... -
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Dov Waxman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.16No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is... -
Time Shelter: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023 by Georgi Gospodinov
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'The most exquisite kind of literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then... -
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.02The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.In a moment of historic peril and uncertainty in mainland Europe,... -
Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules by Philippe Sands
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider's view of the elites who govern our lives. His sensational revelations in Lawless World changed the political agenda overnight, forcing Tony Blair to publish damning mterial that he'd tried to... -
Inside The Third Reich Albert Speer 9781842127353
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.79The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany, by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man.'Inside the Third Reich is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler... -
Pandemic Diaries: The inside story of Britain's battle against Covid by Matt Hancock
Booksplease Price: £17.79When Covid-19 swept the world, governments scrambled to protect their citizens and chart a course back to normality. As Health Secretary, Matt Hancock was at the forefront of Britain's battle against the virus, trying to steer the country through the... -
Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria Dr Ammar Azzouz 9781350248144
Booksplease Price: £28.07Domicide = the systematic and deliberate killing of home.So much architectural response to war has focused on 'cultural heritage', the destruction of infrastructure, and of ancient architecture - here, Ammar Azzouz moves the focus somewhere more... -
Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin 9781250256690
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.24Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated - and often brutal - harnessing of data. It is a... -
Party Life: Chinese Governance and the World Beyond Liberalism by Eric Li 9789819945214
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £87.15The emergence of China as a great power is perhaps the most consequential development for the world in the 21st century. Yet, what the Western world sees in this development is largely through the prism of misinterpreted ideological dichotomy and... -
International Security Studies: Theory and Practice by Peter Hough 9780367109868
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.84This new and updated edition of International Security Studies provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the subject of security studies, with a strong emphasis on the use of case studies to illustrate theoretical debates.In addition to... -
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. ... -
The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour by Peter Mandelson 9780007395309
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.94The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour's three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this paperback edition. Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is... -
God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani by Sajad Jiyad 9780870785665
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870785665Author Sajad JiyadFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Century Foundation PressPublisher Century Foundation PressWeight(grams)... -
The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984878281Author Keyu JinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region by Itamar Rabinovich 9780815740100
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £56.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815740100Author Itamar RabinovichFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm)... -
The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power Kerry Brown 9780300272925
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.45A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while... -
Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward 9781844674664
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.71Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas ("the flood") sought to liberate the...